The Brookhaven leader., 1887-03-17

THE National League OF Mus,c.uas 4. ne
United States, in session at Chicago re-
Gently passed resolutions asking Congress
for protection.
CHARGES of heresy have been preferred
by a student Of the Yale theological school
against Prof. John +. Russell.
THE body of a woman was found recently
in barrel at the Adams Express office,
Boston.
THE Stanley expedition for the relief Of
Emin Bey left Cape Town, South Africa, on
the 10th for the Congo.
Twn persoLS were killed and ten injured
by an explosion Of melinite in the arsenal
at Belfort France, recently.
THE S4OO, 900 appropriated by Congress for
the militia will not become available until
July 1.
ExTRAoRDfSARY activity is displayed at
Krupp's works at Essen in filling orders
for guns for the German Government
THE German Catholic editors and publish.
ers met at Cincinnati on the 10th to form q
German American Catholic Press Associa
tion.
THE French Chamber Of Deputies, by o
vote Of 32s against 23S has approved the
bill imposing duty of five francs per kilds
on wheat imports
The Shah of Persia has granted 4.0O0
square yards of ground to DR.. w. W. Tor
renee, physician of the American Presby
teriau Board Of Missions. for hospital at
Teheran.
GOVERNOR MAI, of the Portuguese settle
ment on the Island of Timor in the Malay
Archipelago, has been assassInated by ma
tives. Five regiments have been sent to
the colony from Macao.
THE schooner Grace Bradley has been
wrecked at the Delaware breakwater. She
was bound from Cienfuegos for Boston with
! 5,021 bags of sugar. The cargo was valued
| at s55, 900
A FREIGHT train at Southington, Conn.
ran into an open switch the other day ant
caused considerable damage No lives wert
| lost
JAMES l. DAVID, agent of the Usage In
dians of the Indian Territory, has been sus
pended by Indian Inspector Bannister and
| Special Agent White has been temporarily
placed in charge of the agency.
THE post-office at Tubac. A. T., has been
blown up with dynamite. The outrage
was believed TO have been the work OF
Mexicans
! A FREsH shock Of earthquake was felt at
Nice and other places in Europe at 2:50
o'clock on the afternoon of the llth and
\
7 brations Travelled from the northeast TO the
/ southwest.
/ ADvICEs froin Rustchuk say that fourteen
on-commissioned officers who participated
/ in the recent bulgarian revolt were shot OF
the llth near Rasgrad.
Two colored women and man were tarreC
and feathered recently at Manassas, Va, by
three white men, who were arrested for the
/ offense.
| The strike of railroad laborers at Sault
! junction, Mich, assumed a serious phase on
the llth. The strikers took possession Of
| the camps and refused to let others work.
! Contractors were arming themselves, and
| the sheriff was called upon to send help.
The business failures during the seven
days ended March 10 numbered for he Uni
! ted States 23O; Canada, 50; total, 2S2; com
pared with 229 the previous week and 239 the
corresponding week last year. The in
| creases were mainly attributed to Canada
and the British provinces. A considerable
increase was also apparent in the Pacific
States and the South.
THE Presidents of the trunk lines, in ses-
sion recently at Chicago, made some radi
cal changes. Second class rates were abol.
ished east Of Chicago, also agents commits
sions
| ARTHUR DEMING, late Of Sligo County,
Ind, was insured in the Etna Life lnsur-
ance Company for $1,000. After his death
the company refused payment on the ground
that he had killed himself through intem.
perance Suit was brought to recover and
the jury brought in a verdict against the
company for $4,000. An appeal to the Su-
preme Court will be taken.
SPECIAL rates are to be allowed on all
roads leading to Washington on the occa-
sion of the national drill-three-quarters OF
| a cent per mile each way